Vesuvian Sky
11-18-2014, 12:24 AM
I find this extremely interesting because I speculated a while ago that both Starcevo-Koros-Cris, Cardial Ware, and LBK early Neolithic Farming Horizons would be Med./ENF but also significantly Caucus/West Asian. And as it turns out this was indeed the case. The Neolithic is what brought the West Asian genetic imprint in the main to Europe. However there was indeed acculturation going on between hunters and incoming farmers. Hence the outlier, KO1:
Despite its early Neolithic farming context, this genome falls towards the hunter-gatherer vicinity of the PCA plot (Fig. 2). In contrast, sample KO2, which is contemporaneous to KO1 (5,570-5,710 cal BC) and also from a Neolithic Koros Culture site only 70 km distant, clusters with later Neolithic individuals. This marked genomic dichotomy between KO1 and KO2 suggests direct contact between indigenous hunter-gatherers and Neolithic communities as suggested previously. The outlying Neolithic individual, KO1, was a blue-eyed male and his Y-chromosome lineage, I2a, matches the only haplogroup reported to date in Mesolithic Central and Northern Europeans. Our Neolithic genomes all cluster with affinity to Southern Mediterranean individuals, particularly Sardinians, echoing the results of previous direct analyses of European Neolithic and post- Neolithic genomes.
Source (http://www.nature.com/ncomms/2014/141021/ncomms6257/full/ncomms6257.html)
Still, KO2 of the Koros culture pretty much had the same ENF type ADMIXTURE as fellow Neoliths. So w/o further adieu:
Specimen: KO1
Location/Context: Neolithic Koros culture of Hungarian Plain
Date: c. 6,000 BC
http://i59.tinypic.com/30tkx7m.jpg
Specimen: LBK
Location/Context: Neolithic Linear Ware culture, Stuttgart, Germany
Date: c. 5,500 BC
http://i60.tinypic.com/1z17eo4.jpg
Specimen: NE5
Location/Context: Alfod Linear Ware, Hungarian Plain
Date: c. 5,000 BC
http://i61.tinypic.com/29yjo1t.jpg
Specimen: NE6
Location/Context: Linear Ware Culture, Hungarian Plain
Date: 5,000 BC
http://i58.tinypic.com/331hc1d.jpg
Specimen: NE7
Location/Context: Lengyel Culture, Hungarian Plain
Date: 4,500 BC
http://i57.tinypic.com/e6wpe1.jpg
Despite its early Neolithic farming context, this genome falls towards the hunter-gatherer vicinity of the PCA plot (Fig. 2). In contrast, sample KO2, which is contemporaneous to KO1 (5,570-5,710 cal BC) and also from a Neolithic Koros Culture site only 70 km distant, clusters with later Neolithic individuals. This marked genomic dichotomy between KO1 and KO2 suggests direct contact between indigenous hunter-gatherers and Neolithic communities as suggested previously. The outlying Neolithic individual, KO1, was a blue-eyed male and his Y-chromosome lineage, I2a, matches the only haplogroup reported to date in Mesolithic Central and Northern Europeans. Our Neolithic genomes all cluster with affinity to Southern Mediterranean individuals, particularly Sardinians, echoing the results of previous direct analyses of European Neolithic and post- Neolithic genomes.
Source (http://www.nature.com/ncomms/2014/141021/ncomms6257/full/ncomms6257.html)
Still, KO2 of the Koros culture pretty much had the same ENF type ADMIXTURE as fellow Neoliths. So w/o further adieu:
Specimen: KO1
Location/Context: Neolithic Koros culture of Hungarian Plain
Date: c. 6,000 BC
http://i59.tinypic.com/30tkx7m.jpg
Specimen: LBK
Location/Context: Neolithic Linear Ware culture, Stuttgart, Germany
Date: c. 5,500 BC
http://i60.tinypic.com/1z17eo4.jpg
Specimen: NE5
Location/Context: Alfod Linear Ware, Hungarian Plain
Date: c. 5,000 BC
http://i61.tinypic.com/29yjo1t.jpg
Specimen: NE6
Location/Context: Linear Ware Culture, Hungarian Plain
Date: 5,000 BC
http://i58.tinypic.com/331hc1d.jpg
Specimen: NE7
Location/Context: Lengyel Culture, Hungarian Plain
Date: 4,500 BC
http://i57.tinypic.com/e6wpe1.jpg